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IMMEDIATE HONG KONG
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TELEGRAM NO. 54
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
TOP COPY
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
20 JANUARY 1969
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YOUR TELEGRAM 39 WITH PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION BY ERIC HEFFER REFERS.
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2. THE NAMES GIVEN DO NOT CORRESPOND NITH OUR RECORDS BUT THE
FOLLOWING ACCOUNTS ARE THOUGHT TO BE RELEVANT.
3. A MR 11 CHUNG-KWAN AGED 71 WAS ONE OF TWENTY THREE PERSONS FOUND
IN RESIDENTIAL PREMISES SUSPECTED TO BE AN OPERATIONAL CENTRE
FOR TERRORISM,
THESE PREMISES CONTAINED PROPAGANDA POSTERS,
A LARGE NUMBERS OF CHOPPENO, SHARPENED PIPING, 2,000 EMPTY
ROTTLES AND CORROSIVE ACID . MOST PERSONS FOUND VERS SENTENCED TO
21-PONTIS IMPRISONMENT: MR LI WAS SENTENCED TO 12-MONTHS FOR
BEING FOUND IN PREMISES CONTAINING OFFENSIVE WEAPONS, HE
WAS RELEASED IN APRIL 1968 AFTER RECEIVING NORMAL REMISSION.
A MR MA KAM-LUNG 15 70 YEARS OLD AND WAS CONVICTED IN AUGUST
1967 FOR POSSESSION OF OFFENSIVE WEAPONS, POSSESSION OF
INFLAMMATORY POSTERS, FORMING PART OF INTIMIDATING ASSEMBLY
AND OBSTRUSTING A POLICE OFFICER. AT THE TIME OF BORDER INCIDENTS,
MR MA RAN A FICE SHOP IN A MARKET TOWN NEAR THE FRONTIER AT
WHICH HE DISPLAYED MANY INFLAMMATORY POSTERS AND BROADCAST
ÎNCITEMENT TO MAKE TROVELE. ALTHOUGH OTHER SHOPS STOPPED THEIR
IMILAR PRACTISES AFTER WARNINGS BY THE POLICE, MA PERSISTEN
AND TURNED HIS SHOP INTO A FORTRESS. WHEN RAIDED BY PALICE
MA PUT UP STRONG RESISTANCE USING CHOPPERS AND PETROL BOMBS.
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